Canada in a Day

September 8, 2016

Share your best Ottawa video on September 10 with CTV’s Canada in a Day!

Attention videographers: CTV is asking for your help! Their “Canada in a Day” project asks residents and visitors alike to “grab your camera and film your life” on Saturday, Sept. 10! Participants can upload their footage from this Saturday onto the CTV website for Canada in a Day and from this, a curated video special will be created. The video will be shown in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, compiling experiences from across Canada filmed over a 24-hour period on Sept. 10.

Ottawa Tourism pulled together some suggestions for events and attractions around Ottawa this weekend that you might want to film and upload! Let us know if you have any other suggestions.

Take a trip on the Aqua Taxi on the Ottawa River and get beautiful views of the National Gallery of Canada, Parliament Hill, the Canadian Museum of History and more as you travel from Ottawa to Gatineau and back!

Hang out with Maman, the bronze spider sculpture outside of the National Gallery of Canada or include a capture of the iconic architecture that is the gallery roof. Or, get some footage inside the gallery—just make sure to ask an attendant before filming.

Visit the Canadian Museum of Nature and film some dinosaurs, birds or Canadian wildlife, or seek our their famous “Mammoth Crossing” and “Dinosaur Crossing” signs outside, or even the Gardens of Canada along O’Connor Street!

Check out the Diefenbunker and include information about Canada’s Cold War Museum

Learn about Ottawa when it was known as Bytown and its history as a lumber centre at the Bytown Museum (located at the Ottawa Locks)

Watch Parks Canada staff manually operate the Ottawa Locks of the Rideau Canal, Ontario’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site! Hint: The locks are also pedestrian bridges—walk your bike across for a sweet capture.

Rent a kayak or paddleboat at the Dows Lake Pavilion and film a first-person view of the Rideau Canal.